| Noun | 1. | guillotine - closure imposed on the debate of specific sections of a bill | |
| 2. | guillotine - instrument of execution that consists of a weighted blade between two vertical poles; used for beheading people | |
| Verb | 1. | guillotine - kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; "The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country"behead, decapitate - cut the head of; "the French King was beheaded during the Revolution" | |